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Cell Phone Use And Psychosocial Development Among Emerging Adults, Torrey B. Morrill
Cell Phone Use And Psychosocial Development Among Emerging Adults, Torrey B. Morrill
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The cell phone has rapidly become an integral, and, for some, an essential communication tool that is being used worldwide. With cell phone ownership becoming so widespread, especially among the younger generation, society is starting to see and question the impacts of cell phone use on adolescent development.
Relations between cell phone possession, cell phone use, and psychosocial and identity development were investigated using Erikson's Psychosocial Theory and Marcia's Adolescent Identity Paradigm. A sample of 705 college students, ages 18-24, completed a questionnaire that measured the amount and type of cell phone use, identity development (Extended Objective Measure of Ego …